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ktb53
Oct-17-2007, 10:47 PM
I use Smugmug as the backend of my website and host the front page with blogger so that I have a "photo blog" for family and friends. Smugmug is great because I can quickly grab the image URL's and paste them in blogger.

Now with the awesome large size upgrades I would like to enhance my blogger front end so that if you click on a photo you get the cool lightbox like you do is smugmug, I'm sure it's possible but what code would I use. Also, is it possible to do what smugmug is doing where it detects the screen resolution of the user?

Thanks for your help, you can view my blog at www.thebarnettfamily.com

RichardJohn
Oct-18-2007, 09:37 AM
You should just be able to use lightbox with the direct URL of the image on SmugMug.

Lightbox can be found here: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

Let me know if you have any problems with it!

darryl
Oct-18-2007, 10:08 AM
I'd also like to plug litebox, a much smaller (and therefore faster) implementation of the same:

http://www.doknowevil.net/litebox/

I also like this Slideshow:

http://slideshow.triptracker.net/

I've implemented them in a lightweight interface to Phanfare:

http://www.darryl.com/fanphan/listalbums.php5?name=darryl

--Darryl

Jessec
Oct-19-2007, 02:54 PM
This is simlilar but better because it lets you load html into the window if you want.I'm going to use it on my site.
Lytebox (y instead of i)

http://www.dolem.com/lytebox/




I already have Litebox installed and it works great aside from the occasional glitch with not showing a border. Check out the source code on my site. If you need more help let me know and I can give you my css etc.